How did your understanding and appreciation of Lorca change between weeks two (duende) and three (cante jondo) last week and this week? Be specific and provide examples. You should write a few paragraphs here.
Lorcas appreciation and understanding of these readings were at first very difficult for me to understand because i didn’t know when he was talking about reality or when he was talking about society and the world we live in back then. The environment Lorcas was discovering was a time not full of light and warm “cookies”, but a time of darkness and hardships from life experience. However, despite all of those things some how Lorcas seems to see the good even tho theres nothing but darkness that surrounds him.
So i started to approach his readings with more of an open mind making the reading a bit more clear. So when i herd duende i had no clue what the class was taking about. I started to read his poems and do some research on it and duende loosely means having soul, a heightened state of emotion, expression and authenticity. This passion is communicated through art but also having expressed in a from of dancing and singing.However,where does duende come from? is comes from DEATH “all that has black sound Has duende”.
At first i didn’t thin Cante Jondo was any much different then duende because of the singing and dancing, but cante jondo is a profoundly deep song that is expressed in chant, loud scream ultimately in music. The loud screaming is a from of representing all the dead (involving death like duende) ancestors and their heritage. However, deep song is also used to keep their heritage alive and the rising of souls to pass on to future generations using this method.
